Kingmakers: Year One by Sophie Lark [REVIEW]
🔥 ARC Review for Kingmakers: Year One by Sophie Lark 🔥
Kingmakers: Year One by Sophie Lark
Release Date: August 20, 2024
Pages: 432
Format: 📖🎧📱
Series: Kingmakers, Book One
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What to Expect in Kingmakers: Year One by Sophie Lark
🖤Academia
🖤Attempted Mûrder
🖤Boarding School
🖤Bully Romance
🖤Childhood Friends
🖤College Romance
🖤Contemporary Romance
🖤Crime
🖤Dark Romance
🖤Dub Con
🖤Enemies to Lovers
🖤Forbidden Romance
🖤Friends to Lovers
🖤Love Triangle
🖤Mafia Romance
🖤Multi POV
🖤New Adult Romance
🖤Noncônsensual Drûg Use
🖤Other Man Drama
🖤Secret Tattoo
🖤Slow Burn
🖤Suspense
🖤Virgin FMC
🖤Virgin MMC
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Kingmakers: Year One Book Description:
Leo Gallo (son of Sebastian & Yelena)
Mafia families from around the world send their children to Kingmakers Academy to learn the skills of criminal enterprise.
Under the rules of Sanctuary, students are forbidden to fight or kill. But rivalries are high, tensions inflamed, and forbidden love arises in the most unlikely places…
Welcome to Kingmakers
“You will have everything you want in this world, Anna,” he says. “I knew it from when I first held you in my arms. I knew you would take it all, and hold it tight.”
Kingmakers: Year One by Sophie Lark
Kingmakers: Year One Ratings:
FMC: ⭐⭐⭐.5
MMCs: ⭐⭐⭐.25
Plot: ⭐⭐⭐.5
Spice: 🌶️
Overall: ⭐⭐⭐.5
Kingmakers: Year One Review:
The Kingmakers takes us “back” to the Brutal Birthright series. We meet Leo, the son of Sebastian and Yelena, and his close friend Anna – both attending Kingmakers for college this year.
Anna and Leo are inseparable – they have been for as long as they remember. But as they get older, they start to realize feelings for one another that weren’t initially there. Do they act on it before they go to Kingmakers? Of course not.
From the beginning, you can tell Leo and Anna are end game, but we get gratuitous love triangle throws in which feels forced. I actually wanted to see Anna show some interest in Dean, another student at Kingmakers, but instead, she always kept him at arm’s length citing Leo as the reason. Dean is by no means a “good guy”, but he is treated as an afterthought and a way to make Leo jealous.
I saw several reviews that refer to the story as “Mafia Hogwarts”, but the similarities begin and end with it being a boarding school.
Kingmakers: Year One is perfect for readers who enjoy fierce competition, a slow burn love story, and other man drama.
Thank you to Sophie Lark and NetGalley for the ARC.
